Grain-shocking device.



PATENTED MAR. 5, 1907.

Inventor.

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JOHN C. WAGGONER, OF ANTHONY, KANSAS.

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Speciicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented lsarc`. 5, 1907.

Application lea April 25. 1906. Serial No. 313,656.

To M [U11/ont llt may concer/t:

Be it known that I, JOHN C. WAGGONER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Anthony, in the county of Harper and State of Kansas, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Grain Shocking' Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved grain-shocking device.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple, comparatively cheap, and easily-operated device for supporting a plurality of bundles of grain in a single pile.

The invention also relates to certain details of construction, all of which will be fully and clearly hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure l is a perspective view of the improved grain-shocking device in use. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the improved grainshocking device. Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary side view showing the manner of securing the supporting arms in place. Fig. l is a section on or about linea a, Fig. 5. Fig. 5 is a transverse section through the telescoping tube, showing a plan view of the sleeve and the supporting-arms. Fig. 6 is a transverse section on line b t, Fig. 3. Fig. 7 is an enlarged fragmentary section through the lower end of the improved grain-shocking device, showing the telescoping rod and the manner of adjusting and fastening same in place. Fig. 8 is a transverse section on line c c, Fig. 7.

In referring to the drawings in detail like numerals designate like parts.

The device comprises an extensible support and a plurality of supporting-rods detachably secured to the support.

The extensible support consists of a rod member 1, which is pointed at its lower end 2, so that it may be easily driven into the ground, and a tubular member 3 which telescopes upon the rod member and is slidable on said rod member to lengthen or shorten the support. The tubular member is provided with a handle 4 at its upper end and has a locking-screw 5 near its lower end, which may be screwed into any one of a series of depressions 6 in the side of the rod member to lock the two members in adjusted position, as shown in Fig. 8. A sleeve 7 is mounted upon the tubular member at a suitable distance below the handle and is shown in Fig. 9, and is thus capable of ex-l p pansion or contraction to enlarge or dimmish its circumference.

A series of supporting-arms are. detachably attached to the extensible support. These arms are preferably formed of Wire and are four in number, and each consist of an outer substantially straight portion 9, an intermediate coil portion 10, and an inner angular or bent portion 1l.

The tubular member is provided with a series of holes or openings 12 equal in number to the supporting-arms into which the angular bent inner portions 11 are inserted or removed to attach or detach the supportingarms to the tubular member.

It will be noted that the coil portion 10 of each arm is below the horizontal plane of the portions 9 and 11 and that when the arms are attached to the tubular member the inner part of the coil portion seats or iits into one of the slots in the sleeve and serves to support the arms against lateral or rotative movement and also constitute a brace to supp ort the arms in their approximately horizontal position by 'fitting against the inner surface of the tubular member.

The supporting-arms are locked in their supporting position by winding wire 13 or the like around the contractile sleeve and through the coil portions, and thereby drawing the sleeve tightly around the support.

When the supporting-arms are in position, the inner extremities of the angular portions 1l extend vertically up and engage with the inner wall of the tubular member to lock the arm ends in place, substantially as shown in Fig. 4.

The principal advantages of this improved device are that it can be easily and quickly assembled or dismounted and that it can be packed when dismounted into a comparatively small space.

l claim as my inventionl. A grain-shocking device comprising an extensible support, a slotted sleeve on the support and a series of supporting-arms fastened to the extensible support and in part adapted to engage in the slots in the sleeve to lock the arms against lateral movement.

2. A grain-shocking device comprising an IOO IIO

extensible support, a slotted sleeve on the support and a series of supporting-arms fastened to the extensible support and having coil portions adapted to engage in the slots in the sleeve to look the arms against lateral movement.

3. In a grain-shocking device, a support at least in part tubular and having a series of side openings and a series of supportingarms having intermediate ooil portions and angular inner portions; said ooil portions being adapted to Contact with the support and form braces to maintain the arms in supporting position, and said angular inner portions being adapted to be inserted and looked in the side openings, substantiall as set forth.

4. In a grain-shocking device, a support at least in part tubular and having a series of side openings, a contractile sleeve on the support having slots, a series of supportingarins having intermediate ooil portions and angular inner portions and a binding around the sleeve and through the coil portions of the supporting-arms; said coil vportions being adapted to seat in the slots in the sleeve and Contact With the support and form braces to maintain the arms in supporting position, and said angular inner portions being adapted to be inserted and looked in the side openings, substantially as set Jforth.

JOHN C. WAGGONER. Witnesses:

R. B. BEARD, W. L. MATTIMORE. 

